Abstract Painting (Backlit) · y-a-v-a, 2026
after Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960–66
Medium: light emitted by your screen.
Turn the room dark. Turn the screen up. Wait.
A cross of three blacks is in there, at the edge of seeing.
It is on every screen and the same on none of them.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · y-a-v-a, after Ad Reinhardt — whose black paintings descend from Malevich’s Black Square (1915), and who asked that they never be reproduced. No cookies. No trackers. Nothing sent anywhere.